He has made art for Newsweek, The New York Times, United Airlines, TED, Nintendo, and has illustrated a a number of novels. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Catch a Star with this new toddler-friendly board book edition! At an early age, Oliver developed an appreciation of five-letter words and his loves include plastic food, wheels, suitcase handles, Elvis and, despite not having met one yet, polar bears. He started creating children's books when people wouldn't believe what happened to him unless he pretended he was telling 'stories'. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.The beautiful child-like innocence and awe we used to have is something he perfectly portrays in his writing and illustrations. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. An inspirational story from internationally bestselling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator Oliver Jeffers.

Oliver Jeffers offers a simple, childlike tale of reaching for the stars, and emerging with a friend. I could see this as a good way to teach children about rather heavy subjects such as depression, anxiety, loss and mourning. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Every night he watched the stars in the sky from his bedroom window and dreamed of how he could be their friend and how they could play hide-and-go-seek together. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Brooklyn Museum New York.

An inspirational story of a boy who loved the stars so much, he decided to catch one of his very own. His outstanding talent has been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award. A story about possibilities and disappointments with a triumphant ending, all of which Jeffers captures through the beautifully expressive changing moods of his little boy. Althought the story is simple, remember you are reading to a child, my 2 yr old is amazed at how many things have stars in them other than the sky. Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist and author-illustrator of children’s picture books, including Lost and Found and Here We Are.

When my mum and/or dad dies, I'll be sure to not put my heart in a bottle and will, instead, accept those feelings of loss and pain. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. His books include How to Catch a Star; Lost and Found , which was the recipient of the prestigious Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in the U.

Lost and Found became Oliver's first book to made into animation by London based Studio AKA, screening on Christmas Eve 2008 on Channel 4 in the UK and on Nickelodeon in the US and Australia. Whenever my toddler wakes up from his afternoon nap in inconsolable tears, as he occasionally does for some mysterious reason, this book always immediately comforts him from the opening page.

I will get through it, and when I do, I'll make sure to treasure every memory I have of them and tell myself that they are not truly dead, because they'll live long in the memories I have of them. His outstanding talent has already been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award, the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and the Irish Children's Book of the Year. It made me realise that while losing someone is, indeed, horrible but shutting yourself away in a protective shell doesn't help the situation nor is it something that person would ever want. Finally, just when the boy is ready to give up, he learns that sometimes things aren't where, or what, we expect them to be.

Every night he watched them sailing in the sky outside his bedroom window and dreamed of making friends with them, playing games of hide-and-seek together. The children in my setting loved the story, they are big fans of the nursery rhyme Twinkle twinkle little star, so I knew they would be interested in this. And I don't think I would have been as lucky as finding someone "small and still curious about the world" like she had. This is a magical, beautifully illustrated tale about reaching for dreams… Adults tend to think of waiting as tedious, but the magic of this book is that it understands waiting as children wait - alert, apprehensive and using their imaginations. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.